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The Best 1000 Films of All-Time

** There is a ten year moratorium on all new films – so this list does not include released from 2014 to current day

film	director	year
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey	Kubrick	1968
2. The Searchers	Ford	1956
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc	Dreyer	1928
4. Apocalypse Now	F. Coppola	1979
5. In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai	2000
6. Citizen Kane	Welles	1941
7. Sunrise	Murnau	1927
8. Nostalghia	Tarkovsky	1983
9. Raging Bull	Scorsese	1980
10. Vertigo	Hitchcock	1958
11. Tokyo Story	Ozu	1953
12. Stalker	Tarkovsky	1979
13. 8 1/2	Fellini	1963
14. Barry Lyndon	Kubrick	1975
15. The Godfather	F. Coppola	1972
16. Battleship Potemkin	Eisenstein	1925
17. The Conformist	Bertolucci	1970
18. Intolerance	Griffith	1916
19. Blade Runner	R. Scott	1982
20. Bicycle Thieves	De Sica	1948
21. Seven Samurai	Kurosawa	1954
22. Rashomon	Kurosawa	1950
23. Lawrence of Arabia	Lean	1962
24. Breaking the Waves	von Trier	1996
25. Goodfellas	Scorsese	1990
26. La Dolce Vita	Fellini	1960
27. Chungking Express	Wong Kar-wai	1994
28. The Godfather Part II	F. Coppola	1974
29. The Rules of the Game	Renoir	1939
30. Taxi Driver	Scorsese	1976
31. A Short Film About Killing	Kieslowski	1988
32. Pulp Fiction	Tarantino	1994
33. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Wiene	1920
34. Touch of Evil	Welles	1958
35. The End of Summer	Ozu	1961
36. Last Year at Marienbad	Resnais	1961
37. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover	Greenaway	1989
38. Jules and Jim	Truffaut	1962
39. Breathless	Godard	1960
40. The Tree of Life	Malick	2011
41. The Turin Horse	Tarr	2011
42. Days of Heaven	Malick	1978
43. The Last Laugh	Murnau	1924
44. The Magnificent Ambersons	Welles	1942
45. Persona	Bergman	1966
46. I Am Cuba	Kalatozov	1964
47. Children of Men	Cuarón	2006
48. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Fassbinder	1974
49. The Seventh Seal	Bergman	1957
50. Do the Right Thing	S. Lee	1989
51. Cries & Whispers	Bergman	1972
52. Songs from the Second Floor	Andersson	2000
53. Red Desert	Antonioni	1964
54. Gertrud	Dreyer	1964
55. Melancholia	von Trier	2011
56. Distant Voices, Still Lives	Davies	1988
57. High and Low	Kurosawa	1963
58. Playtime	Tati	1967
59. The Leopard	Visconti	1963
60. Punch-Drunk Love	P.T. Anderson	2002
61. Sherlock Jr.	Keaton	1924
62. A Clockwork Orange	Kubrick	1971
63. M	Lang	1931
64. Werckmeister Harmonies	Tarr	2000
65. Dekalog	Kieslowski	1989
66. The Earrings of Madame De…	Ophüls	1953
67. The Shining	Kubrick	1980
68. There Will Be Blood	P.T. Anderson	2007
69. The Third Man	Reed	1949
70. Naked	Leigh	1993
71. Three Colours: Blue	Kieslowski	1993
72. The Sacrifice	Tarkovsky	1986
73. L’Argent	Bresson	1983
74. The Pornographers	Imamura	1966
75. Germany Year Zero	Rossellini	1948
76. Once Upon a Time in the West	Leone	1968
77. Black Narcissus	Powell, Pressburger	1947
78. 2046	Wong Kar-wai	2004
79. Three Colours: Red	Kieslowski	1994
80. The Master	P.T. Anderson	2012
81. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pasolini	1975
82. Metropolis	Lang	1927
83. The Wild Bunch	Peckinpah	1969
84. The Double Life of Veronique	Kieslowski	1991
85. Raise the Red Lantern	Yimou Zhang	1991
86. Ikiru	Kurosawa	1952
87. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Leone	1966
88. Pierrot le Fou	Godard	1965
89. The 400 Blows	Truffaut	1959
90. Heat	M. Mann	1995
91. Flowers of Shanghai	Hsiao-Hsien Hou	1998
92. The Blue Angel	von Sternberg	1930
93. Brazil	Gilliam	1985
94. The Trial	Welles	1962
95. The White Ribbon	Haneke	2009
96. Blow Out	De Palma	1981
97. The Graduate	M. Nichols	1967
98. Juliet of the Spirits	Fellini	1965
99. Hero	Yimou Zhang	2002
100. Lola Montes	Ophüls	1955
101. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Almodóvar	1988
102. The Bad Sleep Well	Kurosawa	1960
103. Magnolia	P.T. Anderson	1999
104. Army of Shadows	Melville	1969
105. Suspiria	Argento	1977
106. Psycho	Hitchcock	1960
107. Syndromes and a Century	Weerasethakul	2006
108. Fanny and Alexander	Bergman	1982
109. Early Summer	Ozu	1951
110. Gone with the Wind	Fleming	1939
111. Die Nibelungen	Lang	1924
112. Paths of Glory	Kubrick	1957
113. Shoot the Piano Player	Truffaut	1960
114. The Cranes Are Flying	Kalatozov	1957
115. Rome, Open City	Rossellini	1945
116. The Age of Innocence	Scorsese	1993
117. L’Avventura	Antonioni	1960
118. Blue Velvet	Lynch	1986
119. Stagecoach	Ford	1939
120. The Passenger	Antonioni	1975
121. Manhattan	Allen	1979
122. Nashville	Altman	1975
123. The Best Years of Our Lives	Wyler	1946
124. Mulholland Drive	Lynch	2001
125. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Buñuel	1972
126. Eyes Wide Shut	Kubrick	1999
127. Mysteries of Lisbon	Ruiz	2010
128. Boogie Nights	P.T. Anderson	1997
129. Contempt	Godard	1963
130. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums	Mizoguchi	1939
131. A Zed & Two Noughts	Greenaway	1985
132. Notorious	Hitchcock	1946
133. Strike	Eisenstein	1925
134. The Royal Tenenbaums	W. Anderson	2001
135. Aguirre, the Wrath of God	Herzog	1972
136. The Long Day Closes	Davies	1992
137. La grande illusion	Renoir	1937
138. The Thin Red Line	Malick	1998
139. Nosferatu	Murnau	1922
140. Dead Man	Jarmusch	1995
141. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Dominik	2007
142. All that Heaven Allows	Sirk	1955
143. Ida	Pawlikowski	2013
144. Chinatown	Polanski	1974
145. It’s a Wonderful Life	Capra	1946
146. The Phantom Carriage	Sjöström	1921
147. Satantango	Tarr	1994
148. Annie Hall	Allen	1977
149. The Wizard of Oz	Fleming	1939
150. Casablanca	Curtiz	1942
151. The Belly of an Architect	Greenaway	1987
152. Rosemary’s Baby	Polanski	1968
153. Yi Yi	Yang	2000
154. Chimes at Midnight	Welles	1965
155. Umberto D.	De Sica	1952
156. L’Eclisse	Antonioni	1962
157. Rocco and His Brothers	Visconti	1960
158. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Demy	1964
159. War and Peace	Bondarchuk	1965
160. Once Upon a Time in America	Leone	1984
161. Andrei Rublev	Tarkovsky	1966
162. The Music Room	S. Ray	1958
163. Le Samouraï	Melville	1967
164. Mean Streets	Scorsese	1973
165. JFK	Stone	1991
166. The Birth of a Nation	Griffith	1915
167. You, the Living	Andersson	2007
168. The Virgin Spring	Bergman	1960
169. McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Altman	1971
170. Jaws	Spielberg	1975
171. The Tenant	Polanski	1976
172. Possession	Zulawski	1981
173. Rumble Fish	F. Coppola	1983
174. Late Spring	Ozu	1949
175. The General	Keaton, Bruckman	1926
176. A Time to Live and a Time to Die	Hsiao-Hsien Hou	1985
177. Stranger Than Paradise	Jarmusch	1984
178. The Silence	Bergman	1963
179. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance	Park Chan-wook	2002
180. La Terra Trema	Visconti	1948
181. Intentions of Murder	Imamura	1964
182. Inception	Nolan	2010
183. Fight Club	Fincher	1999
184. The Little Foxes	Wyler	1941
185. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Mungiu	2007
186. The Social Network	Fincher	2010
187. The Parallax View	Pakula	1974
188. Black Swan	Aronofsky	2010
189. Kill Bill	Tarantino	2003
190. Lost in Translation	S. Coppola	2003
191. The Lord of the Rings	Jackson	2001
192. The Human Condition	Kobayashi	1959
193. The New World	Malick	2005
194. Viridiana	Buñuel	1961
195. Y Tu Mamá También	Cuarón	2001
196. Silent Light	Reygadas	2007
197. Ran	Kurosawa	1985
198. How Green Was My Valley	Ford	1941
199. Moonrise Kingdom	W. Anderson	2012
200. Zodiac	Fincher	2007
201. Heaven’s Gate	Cimino	1980
202. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Peckinpah	1973
203. The Life of Oharu	Mizoguchi	1952
204. The Big Trail	Walsh	1930
205. The Scarlet Empress	von Sternberg	1934
206. Malcolm X	S. Lee	1992
207. Unforgiven	Eastwood	1992
208. Weekend	Godard	1967
209. Dancer in the Dark	von Trier	2000
210. A Woman Is a Woman	Godard	1961
211. Winter Light	Bergman	1963
212. Replusion	Polanski	1965
213. Requiem for a Dream	Aronofsky	2000
214. The Grapes of Wrath	Ford	1940
215. Pather Panchali	S. Ray	1955
216. Se7en	Fincher	1995
217. Point Blank	Boorman	1967
218. Amarcord	Fellini	1973
219. La Pointe Courte	Varda	1955
220. Le Plaisir	Ophüls	1952
221. Performance	Roeg, Cammell	1970
222. Autumn Sonata	Bergman	1978
223. Morocco	von Sternberg	1930
224. Harold and Maude	Ashby	1971
225. The Andromeda Strain	Wise	1971
226. A Special Day	Scola	1977
227. Don’t Look Now	Roeg	1973
228. The Ipcress File	Furie	1965
229. Schindler’s List	Spielberg	1993
230. City Lights	Chaplin	1931
231. A Woman Under the Influence	Cassavetes	1974
232. Dead Ringers	Cronenberg	1988
233. Bringing Up Baby	Hawks	1938
234. Harakiri	Kobayashi	1962
235. Scarface	Hawks	1932
236. Knife in the Water	Polanski	1962
237. Atonement	J. Wright	2007
238. Mon Oncle	Tati	1958
239. Moulin Rouge!	Luhrmann	2001
240. Johnny Guitar	N. Ray	1954
241. Traffic	Soderbergh	2000
242. Written on the Wind	Sirk	1956
243. La Strada	Fellini	1954
244. Cache	Haneke	2005
245. The Conversation	F. Coppola	1974
246. Rear Window	Hitchcock	1954
247. The Matrix	Wachowski	1999
248. A Man Escaped	Bresson	1956
249. The Servant	Losey	1963
250. A Matter of Life and Death	Powell, Pressburger	1946
251. Fargo	Coen	1996
252. A Brighter Summer’s Day	Yang	1991
253. Come and See	Klimov	1985
254. Inside Llewyn Davis	Coen	2013
255. North by Northwest	Hitchcock	1959
256. Park Row	Fuller	1952
257. Charulata	S. Ray	1964
258. Under the Skin	Glazer	2013
259. Shame	McQueen	2011
260. Days of Being Wild	Wong Kar-wai	1990
261. Ossessione	Visconti	1943
262. Love Me Tonight	Mamoulian	1932
263. Modern Times	Chaplin	1936
264. Los Olvidados	Buñuel	1950
265. Sansho the Bailiff	Mizoguchi	1954
266. Alien	R. Scott	1979
267. The Silence of the Lambs	Demme	1991
268. Sunset Boulevard	Wilder	1950
269. My Darling Clementine	Ford	1946
270. Double Indemnity	Wilder	1944
271. Crash	Cronenberg	1996
272. Midnight Cowboy	Schlesinger	1969
273. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Roy Hill	1969
274. The Gold Rush	Chaplin	1925
275. Greed	von Stroheim	1924
276. A History of Violence	Cronenberg	2005
277. White Heat	Walsh	1949
278. The Crowd	K. Vidor	1928
279. Raiders of the Lost Ark	Spielberg	1981
280. Cool Hand Luke	Rosenberg	1967
281. The Empire Strikes Back	Kershner	1980
282. Hiroshima Mon Amour	Resnais	1959
283. Pickpocket	Bresson	1959
284. The Exorcist	Friedkin	1973
285. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Schrader	1985
286. The Deer Hunter	Cimino	1978
287. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Gondry	2004
288. Hannah and Her Sisters	Allen	1986
289. Bonnie and Clyde	A. Penn	1967
290. The Dark Knight	Nolan	2008
291. The French Connection	Friedkin	1971
292. Tess	Polanski	1979
293. High Noon	Zinnemann	1952
294. Star Wars	Lucas	1977
295. L’Atalante	Vigo	1934
296. MASH*	Altman	1970
297. Million Dollar Baby	Eastwood	2004
298. Red River	Hawks	1948
299. Out of the Past	Tourneur	1947
300. The Big Lebowski	Coen	1998
301. Rushmore	W. Anderson	1998
302. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Kubrick	1964
303. No Country for Old Men	Coen	2007
304. Great Expectations	Lean	1946
305. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Ford	1962
306. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Powell, Pressburger	1943
307. Destiny	Lang	1921
308. The Wind	Sjöström	1928
309. Lost Highway	Lynch	1997
310. The 47 Ronin	Mizoguchi	1941
311. The Night of the Hunter	Laughton	1955
312. Cleo from 5 to 7	Varda	1962
313. Mon oncle d’Amérique	Resnais	1980
314. Casino	Scorsese	1995
315. Kings of the Road	Wenders	1976
316. Café Lumière	Hsiao-Hsien Hou	2003
317. Tokyo Drifter	Suzuki	1966
318. Blow-Up	Antonioni	1966
319. Deep Red	Argento	1975
320. Faust	Murnau	1926
321. Foolish Wives	von Stroheim	1922
322. Strangers on a Train	Hitchcock	1951
323. Veronika Voss	Fassbinder	1982
324. Reservoir Dogs	Tarantino	1992
325. The Fountain	Aronofsky	2006
326. The Last of the Mohicans	M. Mann	1992
327. The Innocents	Clayton	1961
328. Peeping Tom	Powell	1960
329. Pyaasa	Dutt	1957
330. The Devils	K. Russell	1971
331. Dark City	Proyas	1998
332. Marie Antoinette	S. Coppola	2006
333. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler	Lang	1922
334. Trainspotting	Boyle	1996
335. Gravity	Cuarón	2013
336. Teorema	Pasolini	1968
337. The King’s Speech	Tom Hooper	2010
338. The Departed	Scorsese	2006
339. Yojimbo	Kurosawa	1961
340. Pan’s Labyrinth	del Toro	2006
341. West Side Story	Wise, J. Robbins	1961
342. Safe	Haynes	1995
343. The Lady from Shanghai	Welles	1947
344. 25th Hour	S. Lee	2002
345. Amadeus	Forman	1984
346. The City of Lost Children	Jeunet, Caro	1995
347. Before Sunset	Linklater	2004
348. Hunger	McQueen	2008
349. La Notte	Antonioni	1961
350. Klute	Pakula	1971
351. Fitzcarraldo	Herzog	1982
352. The Killers	Siodmak	1946
353. Oldboy	Park Chan-wook	2003
354. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Spielberg	1982
355. Badlands	Malick	1973
356. Floating Weeds	Ozu	1959
357. The Ballad of Narayama	Kinoshita	1958
358. A Hen in the Wind	Ozu	1948
359. Accattone	Pasolini	1961
360. The Red and the White	Jancsó	1967
361. A Serious Man	Coen	2009
362. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Huston	1948
363. Crimes and Misdemeanors	Allen	1989
364. Pinocchio	Luske, Sharpsteen	1940
365. Carnal Knowledge	M. Nichols	1971
366. Singin’ in the Rain	Donen, Kelly	1952
367. It Happened One Night	Capra	1934
368. Bride of Frankenstein	Whale	1935
369. Saving Private Ryan	Spielberg	1998
370. Kwaidan	Kobayashi	1964
371. Doctor Zhivago	Lean	1965
372. Network	Lumet	1976
373. Mystic River	Eastwood	2003
374. Diabolique	Clouzot	1955
375. Dog Day Afternoon	Lumet	1975
376. Letter from an Unknown Woman	Ophüls	1948
377. The Ballad of Narayama	Imamura	1983
378. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Weerasethakul	2010
379. Wild Strawberries	Bergman	1957
380. Ivan the Terrilble	Eisenstein	1944
381. Paisan	Rossellini	1946
382. A Very Long Engagement	Jeunet	2004
383. Memories of Murder	Bong Joon-ho	2003
384. Damnation	Tarr	1988
385. Three Colours: White	Kieslowski	1994
386. Ashes and Diamonds	Wajda	1958
387. Solaris	Tarkovsky	1972
388. Le Bonheur	Varda	1965
389. The Deep Blue Sea	Davies	2011
390. The Red Shoes	Powell, Pressburger	1948
391. Valhalla Rising	Refn	2009
392. Alphaville	Godard	1965
393. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Gilliam	1988
394. Lola	Fassbinder	1981
395. Three Crowns of the Sailor	Ruiz	1983
396. Osaka Elegy	Mizoguchi	1936
397. Inglourious Basterds	Tarantino	2009
398. Alexander Nevsky	Eisenstein, Vasilyev	1938
399. We Need to Talk About Kevin	Ramsay	2011
400. Ivan’s Childhood	Tarkovsky	1962
401. The Long Goodbye	Altman	1973
402. The Marriage of Maria Braun	Fassbinder	1979
403. Letter Never Sent	Kalatozov	1960
404. Rope	Hitchcock	1948
405. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	Ford	1949
406. Ordet	Dreyer	1955
407. Despair	Fassbinder	1978
408. Vivre Sa Vie	Godard	1962
409. Orlando	Potter	1992
410. The Virgin Suicides	S. Coppola	1999
411. Pickup on South Street	Fuller	1953
412. Othello	Welles	1951
413. Senso	Visconti	1954
414. Vampyr	Dreyer	1932
415. Before Midnight	Linklater	2013
416. The Great Beauty	Sorrentino	2013
417. The Aviator	Scorsese	2004
418. Bad Education	Almodóvar	2004
419. All the President’s Men	Pakula	1976
420. La Chienne	Renoir	1931
421. Sanjuro	Kurosawa	1962
422. House of Flying Daggers	Yimou Zhang	2004
423. Mirror	Tarkovsky	1975
424. The Son	Dardenne	2002
425. Elevator to the Gallows	Malle	1958
426. Talk to Her	Almodóvar	2002
427. The Piano	Campion	1993
428. Barton Fink	Coen	1991
429. L’enfant	Dardenne	2005
430. La Ronde	Ophüls	1950
431. Amélie	Jeunet	2001
432. Shame	Bergman	1968
433. American Beauty	Mendes	1999
434. 12 Monkeys	Gilliam	1995
435. Lady Snowblood	Fujita	1973
436. Taste of Cherry	Kiarostami	1997
437. Samurai Rebellion	Kobayashi	1967
438. The Insider	M. Mann	1999
439. Interiors	Allen	1978
440. The Navigator	Keaton, Crisp	1924
441. An Autumn Afternoon	Ozu	1962
442. The Damned	Visconti	1969
443. Kes	Loach	1969
444. Kaagaz Ke Phool	Dutt	1959
445. Thief	M. Mann	1981
446. The Holy Mountain	Jodorowsky	1973
447. Le Million	Clair	1931
448. The Exterminating Angel	Buñuel	1962
449. 1900	Bertolucci	1976
450. Carrie	De Palma	1976
451. Bright Star	Campion	2009
452. Antichrist	von Trier	2009
453. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	Akerman	1975
454. Ugetsu	Mizoguchi	1953
455. The Last Tango in Paris	Bertolucci	1972
456. Les rendez-vous d’Anna	Akerman	1978
457. Vengeance is Mine	Imamura	1979
458. Rio Bravo	Hawks	1959
459. They Live by Night	N. Ray	1948
460. Les vampires	Feuillade	1915
461. Day of Wrath	Dreyer	1943
462. Out of Sight	Soderbergh	1998
463. A Fistful of Dollars	Leone	1964
464. Pigs and Battleships	Imamura	1961
465. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Gilliam	1998
466. For a Few Dollars More	Leone	1965
467. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Lynch	1992
468. Dogtooth	Lanthimos	2009
469. La tête d’un homme	Duvivier	1933
470. 7th Heaven	Borzage	1927
471. Beauty and the Beast	Cocteau, Clément	1946
472. The Sweet Hereafter	Egoyan	1997
473. Track of the Cat	Wellman	1954
474. Le notti bianche	Visconti	1957
475. Nights of Cabiria	Fellini	1957
476. Journey to Italy	Rossellini	1954
477. Manhunter	M. Mann	1986
478. Dressed to Kill	De Palma	1980
479. The Lovers on the Bridge	Carax	1991
480. Wild at Heart	Lynch	1990
481. Miller’s Crossing	Coen	1990
482. The Battle of Algiers	Pontecorvo	1966
483. Gun Crazy	Lewis	1950
484. Blood Simple	Coen	1984
485. One from the Heart	F. Coppola	1981
486. Elephant	Van Sant	2003
487. The King of Comedy	Scorsese	1982
488. Shadow of a Doubt	Hitchcock	1943
489. I Vitelloni	Fellini	1953
490. Odd Man Out	Reed	1947
491. 12 Angry Men	Lumet	1957
492. The Thing	Carpenter	1982
493. Two Women	De Sica	1960
494. The Hill	Lumet	1965
495. Sweet Smell of Success	Mackendrick	1957
496. Back to the Future	Zemeckis	1985
497. His Girl Friday	Hawks	1940
498. The Bridge on the River Kwai	Lean	1957
499. The Manchurian Candidate	Frankenheimer	1962
500. Cabaret	Fosse	1972
501. The Birds	Hitchcock	1963
502. The Man Who Fell to Earth	Roeg	1976
503. Devi	S. Ray	1960
504. Exotica	Egoyan	1994
505. The Darjeeling Limited	W. Anderson	2007
506. Aparajito	S. Ray	1956
507. Shoeshine	De Sica	1946
508. Fantastic Mr. Fox	W. Anderson	2009
509. The World of Apu	S. Ray	1959
510. Laurence Anyways	Dolan	2012
511. The English Patient	Minghella	1996
512. Paris, Texas	Wenders	1984
513. The Crime of Monsieur Lange	Renoir	1936
514. The Big Parade	K. Vidor	1925
515. A Star is Born	Cukor	1954
516. The Limits of Control	Jarmusch	2009
517. The Talented Mr. Ripley	Minghella	1999
518. Being John Malkovich	Jonze	1999
519. Cabiria	Pastrone	1914
520. Django Unchained	Tarantino	2012
521. The Apartment	Wilder	1960
522. The Man with the Golden Arm	Preminger	1955
523. You Only Live Once	Lang	1937
524. Memento	Nolan	2000
525. 12 Years a Slave	McQueen	2013
526. Made in U.S.A	Godard	1966
527. All That Jazz	Fosse	1979
528. The Maltese Falcon	Huston	1941
529. Gosford Park	Altman	2001
530. Only God Forgives	Refn	2013
531. On the Waterfront	Kazan	1954
532. Halloween	Carpenter	1978
533. The Lady Eve	P. Sturges	1941
534. Down by Law	Jarmusch	1986
535. Scarlet Street	Lang	1945
536. Rebecca	Hitchcock	1940
537. The Big Sleep	Hawks	1946
538. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Forman	1975
539. Road to Perdition	Mendes	2002
540. Far From Heaven	Haynes	2002
541. Peppermint Candy	Lee Chang-dong	1999
542. The Circus	Chaplin	1928
543. Aliens	Cameron	1986
544. A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Spielberg	2001
545. The Piano Teacher	Haneke	2001
546. The Haunting	Wise	1963
547. Mystery Train	Jarmusch	1989
548. Lola	Demy	1961
549. The Big Heat	Lang	1953
550. David Golder	Duvivier	1931
551. Wings	Wellman	1927
552. Stromboli	Rossellini	1950
553. Enemy	Villeneuve	2013
554. The Dark Knight Rises	Nolan	2012
555. The Fisher King	Gilliam	1991
556. Naked Lunch	Cronenberg	1991
557. City of God	Meirelles, Lund	2002
558. Él	Buñuel	1953
559. Bob le Flambeur	Melville	1956
560. Run Lola Run	Tykwer	1998
561. Lincoln	Spielberg	2012
562. The Children’s Hour	Wyler	1961
563. Sid and Nancy	Cox	1986
564. Broken Flowers	Jarmusch	2005
565. Full Metal Jacket	Kubrick	1987
566. Groundhog Day	Ramis	1993
567. Dirty Harry	Siegel	1971
568. Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Wise	1979
569. Laura	Preminger	1944
570. A Story of Floating Weeds	Ozu	1934
571. I Killed My Mother	Dolan	2009
572. Pennies from Heaven	H. Ross	1981
573. American Psycho	Harron	2000
574. The Fly	Cronenberg	1986
575. Amores Perros	Iñárritu	2000
576. Fallen Angel	Preminger	1945
577. Code Unknown	Haneke	2000
578. The Shawshank Redemption	Darabont	1994
579. Rebel Without a Cause	N. Ray	1955
580. Spirited Away	Miyazaki	2001
581. O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Coen	2000
582. Happy Together	Wong Kar-wai	1997
583. In a Lonely Place	N. Ray	1950
584. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	A. Lee	2000
585. Gigi	Minnelli	1958
586. Pale Flower	Shinoda	1964
587. Belle de Jour	Buñuel	1967
588. Oktyabr	Eisenstein, Aleksandrov	1927
589. Reds	Beatty	1981
590. La haine	Kassovitz	1995
591. The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Pasolini	1964
592. Marnie	Hitchcock	1964
593. Children of Paradise	Carne	1945
594. La Bête Humaine	Renoir	1938
595. Body Heat	Kasdan	1981
596. The Celebration	Vinterberg	1998
597. Toni	Renoir	1935
598. The Threepenny Opera	Pabst	1931
599. Videodrome	Cronenberg	1983
600. Dick Tracy	Beatty	1990
601. Detective Story	Wyler	1951
602. The Wages of Fear	Clouzot	1953
603. To Catch a Thief	Hitchcock	1955
604. The Big Country	Wyler	1958
605. Ashes of Time	Wong Kar-wai	1994
606. The Ghost Writer	Polanski	2010
607. Pride & Prejudice	J. Wright	2005
608. Brokeback Mountain	A. Lee	2005
609. Purple Noon	Clément	1960
610. Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Cameron	1991
611. Tom Jones	Richardson	1963
612. Sullivan’s Travels	P. Sturges	1941
613. Avatar	Cameron	2009
614. Scarface	De Palma	1983
615. Scenes from a Marriage	Bergman	1973
616. The 39 Steps	Hitchcock	1935
617. The Palm Beach Story	P. Sturges	1942
618. A Man There Was	Sjöström	1917
619. Picnic at Hanging Rock	Weir	1975
620. Frankenstein	Whale	1931
621. Meet Me in St. Louis	Minnelli	1944
622. Brief Encounter	Lean	1945
623. Die Hard	McTiernan	1988
624. Blue Valentine	Cianfrance	2010
625. Drive	Refn	2011
626. Detour	Ulmer	1945
627. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek	P. Sturges	1943
628. Slacker	Linklater	1990
629. The Purple Rose of Cairo	Allen	1985
630. The Quiet Man	Ford	1952
631. There Was a Father	Ozu	1942
632. My Night at Maud’s	Rohmer	1969
633. The Last Picture Show	Bogdanovich	1971
634. The Elephant Man	Lynch	1980
635. Henry V	Olivier	1944
636. The Only Son	Ozu	1936
637. Shane	Stevens	1953
638. Ben-Hur	Wyler	1959
639. Broadway Danny Rose	Allen	1984
640. Day for Night	Truffaut	1973
641. Island of Lost Souls	Kenton	1932
642. Le Jour Se Leve	Carné	1939
643. Easy Rider	Hopper	1969
644. À nous la liberté	Clair	1931
645. The Bourne Ultimatum	Greengrass	2007
646. Speed Racer	Wachowski	2008
647. Five Easy Pieces	Rafelson	1970
648. Berlin Alexanderplatz	Fassbinder	1980
649. Stardust Memories	Allen	1980
650. The Terminator	Cameron	1984
651. King Kong	Cooper, Schoedsack	1933
652. The Usual Suspects	Singer	1995
653. The Wild Child	Truffaut	1970
654. My Fair Lady	Cukor	1964
655. Imitation of Life	Sirk	1959
656. All About Eve	Mankiewicz	1950
657. Snowpiercer	Bong Joon-ho	2013
658. The Philadelphia Story	Cukor	1940
659. Out of Africa	Pollack	1985
660. A Streetcar Named Desire	Kazan	1951
661. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	M. Nichols	1966
662. Dawn of the Dead	Romero	1978
663. Zéro de conduite	Vigo	1933
664. The Reckless Moment	Ophüls	1949
665. To Have and Have Not	Hawks	1944
666. Lenny	Fosse	1974
667. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Capra	1939
668. The Hustler	Rossen	1961
669. L.A. Confidential	Hanson	1997
670. Two English Girls	Truffaut	1971
671. Winchester ’73	A. Mann	1950
672. Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Zemeckis	1988
673. Trouble in Paradise	Lubitsch	1932
674. Quai des Orfèvres	Clouzot	1947
675. The Roaring Twenties	Walsh	1939
676. The Road Warrior	G. Miller	1981
677. Gunga Din	Stevens	1939
678. Platoon	Stone	1986
679. The Shop Around the Corner	Lubitsch	1940
680. Duel in the Sun	K. Vidor	1946
681. Patton	Schaffner	1970
682. Placido	Berlanga	1961
683. Bullitt	P. Yates	1968
684. Little Miss Sunshine	Dayton, Faris	2006
685. All Quiet on the Western Front	Milestone	1930
686. All the King’s Men	Rossen	1949
687. The Outlaw Josey Wales	Eastwood	1976
688. Little Big Man	A. Penn	1970
689. Orpheus	Cocteau	1950
690. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday	Tati	1953
691. Anatomy of a Murder	Preminger	1959
692. Seven Chances	Keaton	1925
693. Throne of Blood	Kurosawa	1957
694. The Portrait of a Lady	Campion	1996
695. 3 Women	Altman	1977
696. Stray Dog	Kurosawa	1949
697. Branded to Kill	Suzuki	1967
698. Le Havre	Kaurismäki	2011
699. Spies	Lang	1928
700. Wings of Desire	Wenders	1987
701. Two Lovers	Gray	2008
702. Delicatessen	Jeunet, Caro	1991
703. Wendy and Lucy	Reichardt	2008
704. Flight of the Red Balloon	Hsiao-Hsien Hou	2007
705. Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Spielberg	1977
706. Our Hospitality	Keaton, Blystone	1923
707. Pandora’s Box	Pabst	1929
708. Pi	Aronofsky	1998
709. Hour of the Wolf	Bergman	1968
710. The Last Emperor	Bertolucci	1987
711. Spring Breakers	Korine	2012
712. The Woman in the Fifth	Pawlikowski	2011
713. A Dangerous Method	Cronenberg	2011
714. Sisters of the Gion	Mizoguchi	1936
715. The Player	Altman	1992
716. Die Austernprinzessin	Lubitsch	1919
717. Platform	Jia Zhangke	2000
718. Champagne	Hitchcock	1928
719. What Time is it There?	Ming-liang Tsai	2001
720. Irreversible	Noé	2002
721. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring	Kim Ki-duk	2003
722. Sleepy Hollow	Burton	1999
723. Carlito’s Way	De Palma	1993
724. The Tin Star	A. Mann	1957
725. Cape Fear	Scorsese	1991
726. A Separation	Farhadi	2011
727. Broken Embraces	Almodóvar	2009
728. Rosetta	Dardenne	1999
729. The Untouchables	De Palma	1987
730. The Naked Spur	A. Mann	1953
731. Some Came Running	Minnelli	1958
732. The Matrix Reloaded	Wachowski	2003
733. Natural Born Killers	Stone	1994
734. Archipelago	Hogg	2010
735. Through a Glass Darkly	Bergman	1961
736. Faces	Cassavetes	1968
737. Dazed and Confused	Linklater	1993
738. Enter the Void	Noé	2009
739. Jackie Brown	Tarantino	1997
740. Beyond the Hills	Mungiu	2012
741. Before Sunrise	Linklater	1995
742. Nosferatu the Vampyre	Herzog	1979
743. Waxworks	Leni, Birinsky	1924
744. D.O.A.	Maté	1949
745. The Cotton Club	F. Coppola	1984
746. Millennium Actress	Kon	2001
747. The American Friend	Wenders	1977
748. THX 1138	Lucas	1971
749. Duelle	Rivette	1976
750. King of New York	Ferrara	1990
751. My Own Private Idaho	Van Sant	1991
752. Death in Venice	Visconti	1971
753. True Grit	Coen	2010
754. Grave of the Fireflies	Takahata	1988
755. Ludwig	Visconti	1973
756. American Graffiti	Lucas	1973
757. The Tree of Wooden Clogs	Olmi	1978
758. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Fincher	2008
759. Fallen Angels	Wong Kar-wai	1995
760. Heavenly Creatures	Jackson	1994
761. All About My Mother	Almodóvar	1999
762. Steamboat Bill, Jr.	Keaton, Reisner	1928
763. The Masque of the Red Death	Corman	1964
764. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	Parajanov	1965
765. Il Grido	Antonioni	1957
766. Le cercle rouge	Melville	1970
767. Hell’s Angels	Hughes	1930
768. Images	Altman	1972
769. Zabriskie Point	Antonioni	1970
770. Blind Husbands	von Stroheim	1919
771. Aar-Paar	Dutt	1954
772. Mauvais sang	Carax	1986
773. Mr. Klein	Losey	1976
774. Black Sunday	Bava	1960
775. Rififi	Dassin	1955
776. The Man Without a Past	Kaurismäki	2002
777. The Lodger	Hitchcock	1927
778. La promesse	Dardenne	1996
779. Short Cuts	Altman	1993
780. Eraserhead	Lynch	1977
781. Synecdoche, New York	C. Kaufman	2008
782. Perfect Blue	Kon	1997
783. Dames	Berkeley, Enright	1934
784. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Hand	1937
785. The Fall	Singh	2006
786. Blue is the Warmest Colour	Kechiche	2013
787. Diner	Levinson	1982
788. Something Wild	Demme	1986
789. Sin City	F. Miller, Rodriguez	2005
790. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse	Lang	1933
791. Kiss Me Deadly	Aldrich	1955
792. Russian Ark	Sokurov	2002
793. Band of Outsiders	Godard	1964
794. Spider	Cronenberg	2002
795. Sawdust and Tinsel	Bergman	1953
796. A Little Princess	Cuarón	1995
797. Lady in the Lake	Montgomery	1946
798. Matewan	Sayles	1987
799. The Immigrant	Gray	2013
800. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie	Cassavetes	1976
801. Her	Jonze	2013
802. Escape from New York	Carpenter	1981
803. American Gigolo	Schrader	1980
804. Some Like it Hot	Wilder	1959
805. Bound	Wachowski	1996
806. All These Women	Bergman	1964
807. Fort Apache	Ford	1948
808. Gate of Flesh	Suzuki	1964
809. A Farewell to Arms	Borzage	1932
810. Jezebel	Wyler	1938
811. Election	Payne	1999
812. The Nightmare Before Christmas	Selick	1993
813. 21 Grams	Iñárritu	2003
814. Lady Vengeance	Park Chan-wook	2005
815. Diary of a Country Priest	Bresson	1951
816. The Asphalt Jungle	Huston	1950
817. Summer with Monika	Bergman	1953
818. Forty Guns	Fuller	1957
819. Bad Day at Black Rock	J. Sturges	1955
820. Deliverance	Boorman	1972
821. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	E. Wright	2010
822. East of Eden	Kazan	1955
823. The Lion King	Allers, Minkoff	1994
824. Night of the Living Dead	Romero	1968
825. Cat People	Tourneur	1942
826. My Dinner with Andre	Malle	1981
827. Titanic	Cameron	1997
828. Only Angels Have Wings	Hawks	1939
829. Submarine	Ayoade	2010
830. Red Sorghum	Yimou Zhang	1988
831. I Know Where I’m Going!	Powell, Pressburger	1945
832. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Weir	2003
833. At Close Range	Foley	1986
834. Withnail & I	Robinson	1987
835. Ride Lonesome	Boetticher	1959
836. American Hustle	O. Russell	2013
837. Drunken Angel	Kurosawa	1948
838. New York, New York	Scorsese	1977
839. Duck Soup	McCarey.	1933
840. The Sting	Roy Hill	1973
841. Howards End	Ivory	1992
842. Mamma Roma	Pasolini	1962
843. The Letter	Wyler	1940
844. Jurassic Park	Spielberg	1993
845. Donnie Darko	R. Kelly	2001
846. Attack	Aldrich	1956
847. 24 Hour Party People	Winterbottom	2002
848. The Man Who Would Be King	Huston	1975
849. A Day in the Country	Renoir	1936
850. Kind Hearts and Coronets	Hamer	1949
851. Broken Blossoms	Griffith	1919
852. Somewhere	S. Coppola	2010
853. A Place in the Sun	Stevens	1951
854. Frances Ha	Baumbach	2012
855. Dead End	Wyler	1937
856. Morvern Callar	Ramsay	2002
857. Lost Horizon	Capra	1937
858. Porcile	Pasolini	1969
859. The Razor’s Edge	Goulding	1946
860. Stella Dallas	K. Vidor	1937
861. Ratcatcher	Ramsay	1999
862. My Neighbor Totoro	Miyazaki	1988
863. World on a Wire	Fassbinder	1973
864. The Killer	Woo	1989
865. Where Is the Friend’s House?	Kiarostami	1987
866. A Man and a Woman	Lelouch	1966
867. The Duellists	R. Scott	1977
868. Häxan	Christensen	1922
869. Blood and Black Lace	Bava	1964
870. The Match Factory Girl	Kaurismäki	1990
871. Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Ming-liang Tsai	2003
872. Au hasard Balthazar	Bresson	1966
873. Vera Drake	Leigh	2004
874. Hard Boiled	Woo	1992
875. Equinox Flower	Ozu	1958
876. Liebelei	Ophüls	1933
877. The Devil’s Backbone	del Toro	2001
878. Eyes Without a Face	Franju	1960
879. The Pawnbroker	Lumet	1964
880. He Got Game	S. Lee	1998
881. Ryan’s Daughter	Lean	1970
882. Tristana	Buñuel	1970
883. Great Expectations	Cuarón	1998
884. Skyfall	Mendes	2012
885. Three Kings	O. Russell	1999
886. Dangerous Liaisons	Frears	1988
887. Take Shelter	J. Nichols	2011
888. Scarecrow	Schatzberg	1973
889. Jarhead	Mendes	2005
890. Good Will Hunting	Van Sant	1997
891. Forbidden Games	Clément	1952
892. The Hurt Locker	Bigelow	2008
893. The Grandmaster	Wong Kar-wai	2013
894. Forrest Gump	Zemeckis	1994
895. Night of the Demon	Tourneur	1957
896. Under the Roofs of Paris	Clair	1930
897. Goldfinger	Hamilton	1964
898. Torn Curtain	Hitchcock	1966
899. Red Beard	Kurosawa	1965
900. Funny Face	Donen	1957
901. Bad Lieutenant	Ferrara	1992
902. Light Sleeper	Schrader	1992
903. Brute Force	Dassin	1947
904. Moonrise	Borzage	1948
905. Insect Woman	Imamura	1963
906. Walkabout	Roeg	1971
907. Waking Life	Linklater	2001
908. Murder!	Hitchcock	1930
909. An Angel at My Table	Campion	1990
910. Fellini Satyricon	Fellini	1969
911. Smiles of a Summer Night	Bergman	1955
912. Lilith	Rossen	1964
913. Pépé le Moko	Duvivier	1937
914. We Own the Night	Gray	2007
915. Mother	Bong Joon-ho	2009
916. A Room with a View	Ivory	1985
917. Batman	Burton	1989
918. Django	Corbucci	1966
919. The Squid and the Whale	Baumbach	2005
920. Sweetie	Campion	1989
921. The Nun	Rivette	1966
922. Horror of Dracula	Fisher	1958
923. Panique	Duvivier	1946
924. Three Days of the Condor	Pollack	1975
925. Seconds	Frankenheimer	1966
926. Sólo con Tu Pareja	Cuarón	1991
927. Drugstore Cowboy	Van Sant	1989
928. Eastern Promises	Cronenberg	2007
929. Shadows	Cassavetes	1958
930. Way Down East	Griffith	1920
931. The Man From London	Tarr	2007
932. Jean de Florette	Berri	1986
933. Fat City	Huston	1972
934. The Music Lovers	K. Russell	1971
935. Touchez Pas au Grisbi	Becker	1954
936. Ace in the Hole	Wilder	1951
937. Crimson Gold	Panahi	2003
938. The Band Wagon	Minnelli	1953
939. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	LeRoy	1932
940. Julius Caesar	Mankiewicz	1953
941. The Kid With a Bike	Dardenne	2011
942. After Hours	Scorsese	1985
943. Blackmail	Hitchcock	1929
944. Closely Watched Trains	Menzel	1966
945. Far from the Madding Crowd	Schlesinger	1967
946. Calendar	Egoyan	1993
947. The Color of Pomegranates	Parajanov	1969
948. Dead of Night	Calvalcanti, Crichton, Dearden, Hamer	1945
949. Kameradschaft	Pabst	1931
950. Charade	Donen	1963
951. Walker	Cox	1987
952. Crooklyn	S. Lee	1994
953. The Great Silence	Corbucci	1968
954. Midnight Express	Parker	1978
955. Mahanagar	S. Ray	1963
956. That Obscure Object of Desire	Buñuel	1977
957. Career Girls	Leigh	1997
958. Excalibur	Boorman	1981
959. La roue	Gance	1923
960. Force of Evil	Polonsky	1948
961. Conversation Piece	Visconti	1974
962. Birth	Glazer	2004
963. Bound for Glory	Ashby	1976
964. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg	Lubitsch	1927
965. Nixon	Stone	1995
966. Freaks	Browning	1932
967. Port of Shadows	Carné	1938
968. California Split	Altman	1974
969. Prince of the City	Lumet	1981
970. Mildred Pierce	Curtiz	1945
971. Fellini’s Casanova	Fellini	1976
972. No Blood Relation	Naruse	1932
973. Sexy Beast	Glazer	2000
974. Woman in the Dunes	Teshigahara	1964
975. Shutter Island	Scorsese	2010
976. Women in Love	K. Russell	1969
977. The Entertainer	Richardson	1960
978. Bad Timing	Roeg	1980
979. Fox and His Friends	Fassbinder	1975
980. Body Double	De Palma	1984
981. Street Angel	Borzage	1928
982. The Long Good Friday	Mackenzie	1980
983. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	D. Yates	2009
984. The Outlaw and His Wife	Sjöström	1918
985. Magnificent Obsession	Sirk	1954
986. Kagemusha	Kurosawa	1980
987. Memories of Underdevelopment	Gutiérrez Alea	1968
988. Mother	Pudovkin	1926
989. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Almodóvar	1989
990. Chariots of Fire	Hudson	1981
991. Underworld	von Sternberg	1927
992. Dodsworth	Wyler	1936
993. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone	Ming-liang Tsai	2006
994. The Skin I Live In	Almodóvar	2011
995. Beau travail	Denis	1999
996. Invasion of Body Snatchers	Siegel	1956
997. The Draughtman’s Contract	Greenaway	1982
998. The Man Who Knew Too Much	Hitchcock	1956
999. The Last Detail	Ashby	1973
1000. Das Boot	Peterson	1981

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Lionel October 19, 2023 at 4:24 pm - Reply

Didn’t WALL.E make this list?
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 5:34 pm - Reply
  
  @Lionel it did not – still a fine film of course- lots of fine films left off the list to make room for the others
Malith October 19, 2023 at 3:35 pm - Reply

Jurassic Park went from #355 to #844 (Down 489)
Titanic went from #466 to #827(Down 361)

Damn.
Lionel October 19, 2023 at 2:37 pm - Reply

There are a couple of very noticeable hot takes here. One being Only God Forgives is rated higher than Drive. The other being Heaven’s Gate is rated higher than The Deer Hunter. Would have to be a brave person to make this suggestion when they were released. And all the critical drubbing.
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 2:41 pm - Reply
  
  @Lionel – haha spot on with the release and critical drubbing – pretty sure the evidence on the screen holds for both of these though
- Ian October 19, 2023 at 2:54 pm - Reply
  
  @Lionel – I was happy to see Heaven’s Gate above The Deer Hunter and Only God Forgives above Drive. They are visually superior.
  
  @Drake – Seeing Germany Year Zero in the top 100 and passing Rome, Open City is a welcome surprise and a well-deserved leap from around the #200 spot it was on the 2019 list.
Malith October 19, 2023 at 1:58 pm - Reply

Films included in the top 1000 which were not in the archives, had a R (Recommend) grade previously or had no grade after the yearly updates:

1.Die Nibelungen(1924)-Lang-MP-(Not in the archives)
2.War and Peace(1965)-Bondarchuk-MP-(Not in the archives)
3.Possession(1981)-Zulawski-MP-(Not in the archives)
4.The Human Condition(1959)-Kobayashi-MP(-Not in the archives)
5.Silent Light(2007)-Reygadas-MP-(Not in the archives)
6.The Big Trail(1930)-Walsh-MP-(Not in the archives)
7.A Special Day(1977)-Scola-MP-(No grade)
8.Tess(1979)-Polanski-MP-(R-Recommend)
9.Tokyo Drifter(1966)-Suzuki-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
10.Pyaasa(1957)-Dutt-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)

11.The Killers(1946)-Siodmak-MS/MP-(R-Recommend)
12.The Red and the White(1967)-Jancsó-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
13.The Ballad of Narayama(1958)-Kinoshita-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
14.Alphaville(1965)-Godard-MS-(R-Recommend)
15.Three Crowns of the Sailor(1983)-Ruiz-MS-(Not in the archives)
16.Despair(1978)-Fassbinder-MS-(Not in the archives)
17.The Damned(1969)-Visconti-MS-(No grade)
18.Kaagaz Ke Phool(1959)-Dutt-MS-(Not in the archives)
19.Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles(1975)-Akerman-MS-(Not in the archives)
20.Les Rendez-vous d’Anna(1975)-Akerman-MS-(R-Recommend)

21.La tête d’un homme(1933)-Duvivier-MS-(Not in the archives)
22.Track of the Cat(1954)-Wellman-MS-(R-Recommend)
23.Devi(1960)-S.Ray-MS(Not in the archives)
24.Les vampires(1915)-Feuillade-MS-(Not in the archives)
25.Made in U.S.A (1966)-Godard-MS-(Not in the archives)
26.David Golder(1931)-Duvivier-MS-(Not in the archives)
27.The Children’s Hour(1961)-Wyler-MS-(Not in the archives)
28.Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)-Wise-MS-(Not in the archives)
29.Happy Together(1997)-Kar-wai-MS-(R-Recommend)
30.Pale Flower(1964)-Shinoda-MS-(-Not in the archives)

31.The Threepenny Opera(1931)-Pabst-MS-(Not in the archives)
32.The Big Country(1958)-Wyler-MS-(R-Recommend)
33.Ashes of Time(1994)-Kar-wai-MS-(R-Recommend)
34.A Man There Was(1917)-Sjöström-MS-(Not in the archives)
35.The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek(1943)-P.Sturges-MS-(Not in the archives)
36.Speed Racer(2008)-Wachowski-MS-(R-Recommend)
37.Quai des Orfèvres-Clouzot-MS-(Not in the archives)
38.Placido(1961)-Berlanga-MS-(Not in the archives)
39.Branded to Kill(1967)-Suzuki-MS-(Not in the archives)
40.Die Austernprinzessin(1919)-Lubitsch-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)

41.Waxworks(1924)-Leni, Birinsky-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
42.My Own Private Idaho(1991)-van Sant-HR/MS-(No grade)
43.Ludwig(1973)-Visconti-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
44.THX 1138(1971)-Lucas-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
45.The Masque of the Red Death(1964)-Corman-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
46.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(1965)-Parajanov-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
47.Aar-Paar(1954)-Dutt-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
48.Mr. Klein(1976)-Losey-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
49.The Lodger(1927)-Hitchcock-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
50.Lady Vengeance(2005)-Chan-wook-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)

51.All These Women(1964)-Bergman-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
52.Attack(1956)-Aldrich-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
53.Gate of Flesh(1964)-Suzuki-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
54.The Nightmare Before Christmas-Selick-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
55.Porcile(1969)-Pasolini-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
56.The Grandmaster(2013)-Kar-wai-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
57.The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)-Hitchcock-HR-(No grade)
58.Moonrise(1948)-Borzage-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
59.Lilith(1964)-Rossen-HR-(R-Recommend)
60.Panique(1946)-Duvivier-HR-(Not in the archives)

61.The Music Lovers(1971)-K.Russell-HR-(Not in the archives)
62.Walker(1987)-Cox-HR-(No grade)
63.Crooklyn(1994)-S.Lee-HR-(Not in the archives)
64.Excalibur(1981)-Boorman-HR-(No grade)
65.No Blood Relation (1932)-Naruse-HR-(Not in the archives)
66.Women in Love(1969)-K.Russell-(Not in the archives)
67.Body Double(1984)-De Palma-(Not in the archives)
68.The Outlaw and His Wife(1918)-Sjöström-HR-(Not in the archives)
69.Das Boot(1981)-Petersen-HR-(No grade)
Malith October 19, 2023 at 1:17 pm - Reply

Did you actually do a Polanski study or got to some of these randomly? He now has 6 films in the top 300. With The Tenant, Tess and Knife in the Water all getting big upgrades. Have you had another look at say Macbeth, The Pianist or managed to watch Bitter Moon, Based on a True Story and an Officer and a Spy?
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:20 pm - Reply
  
  @Malith- a study, but not a full study. More updates coming on the Polanski page down the road here not too long from now hopefully
  - Malith October 19, 2023 at 1:31 pm - Reply
    
    Is Knife in the Water one of the best debuts in film history?
    - Drake October 19, 2023 at 2:21 pm - Reply
      
      @Malith- only question would be how many to count in “one of the best”
      
      I’m seeing these – you can check my work – might be missing one
      
      Performance – Roeg
      Strike – Eisenstein
      The 400 Blows – Truffaut
      Distance Voices, Still Lives – Davies
      Breathless – Godard
      Citizen Kane – Welles
      - Malith October 19, 2023 at 2:32 pm
        
        I see Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Probably the ultimate one. Are there any others that are rated higher than Knife in the Water? Mann’s Thief is brilliant. But rated below here.
      - R W November 20, 2023 at 10:34 pm
        
        Pather Panchali, which would probably be my pick for the greatest film debut of all time.
- James Trapp October 19, 2023 at 6:38 pm - Reply
  
  @Malith – agreed that Polanski is one of the bigger winners of the new list which I love. Once Drake talked about revisiting Tess I figured MS was the worst case scenario with MP being more likely. MacBeth and An Office and a Spy are both really strong in my opinion probably MS for both and I would love to revist the ladder soon.
LeBron Smith October 19, 2023 at 12:11 pm - Reply

Chimes at Midnight upgraded from MS to MP and a near top 150 film, along with The Lady from Shanghai getting an upgrade from MS to MS/MP seems significant for Welles.
- James Trapp October 19, 2023 at 6:31 pm - Reply
  
  @LeBronSmith – I noticed this as well and am a fan of these changes. Plus Welles other major films all retained their previous positions almost exactly
Lionel October 19, 2023 at 11:47 am - Reply

Didn’t Bergman’s Face to Face make this list?
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:10 pm - Reply
  
  @Lionel- another one that was pulled late until I get another visit- the formatting on the page makes it tough, but may still make some changes to the list if I can rewatch a few here shortly. But maybe not- these lists are always a work in progress
Anderson October 19, 2023 at 11:22 am - Reply

William Wyler is a genius.
Drake October 19, 2023 at 11:09 am - Reply

@Malith- thank you for the cleanup on The Gospel According to St. Matthew– and James Whale as well. Should be fixed
Ian October 19, 2023 at 10:45 am - Reply

I’m interested to see how far Kieślowski jumps on the directors list since you now have him with 5 top 100 films. I think I agree with that. In early 2022, I wrote in my Kieślowski notes: “Potentially 5 top 100 films with Killing, Dekalog, Veronique, Blue, Red?”
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:08 pm - Reply
  
  @Ian- Good notes there in 2022– yes, I’m interested to see how high Kieslowski jumps as well
Ce October 19, 2023 at 9:27 am - Reply

I remember I asked about it a long time ago but did you ever get around to watching Querelle? If you did I’d be shocked if it missed the 1000, as I find it to be among the top of Fassbinder’s oeuvre.
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:08 pm - Reply
  
  @Ce- Good question- not yet, I had grand ambitions for a big Fassbinder study here in late 2023 and other films have sort of pushed it back for not. Very excited to get to it.
LeBron Smith October 19, 2023 at 8:07 am - Reply

The Big Sleep from #100 to #537. Wow!

Cool to see The Conformist and Barry Lyndon jumping to the top 20. I’m long overdue for another viewing of them. You putting them in the top 20 just vaulted them to the top of my watch list haha
- Malith October 19, 2023 at 8:18 am - Reply
  
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest from #157 to #538.
  Rio Bravo from #111 to #458
  On the Waterfront from #239 to #531
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:06 pm - Reply
  
  @LeBron Smith- Great- yes both The Conformist and Barry Lyndon are so relentlessly jaw-dropping – have to separate them even from other masterpieces.
Matthew Moore October 19, 2023 at 5:27 am - Reply

Great List! Thank you so much for all you do. Quick question , if you don’t mind. What’s the logic for putting a Short Film About Killing above Dekalog? I guess I would think Dekalog would almost by default be higher than what are effectively it’s composite parts.
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:05 pm - Reply
  
  @Matthew Moore – Thank you for the kind words on the list— and good question. Sort of discussed it a bit here on these pages and comments https://thecinemaarchives.com/2020/10/15/a-short-film-about-killing-1988-kieslowski/ https://thecinemaarchives.com/2020/10/17/dekalog-1989-kieslowski/
  
  Declan May 23, 2022 at 12:12 pm – Edit – Reply
  Hi Drake, when it comes to measuring up the Dekalog and A Short Film About Killing, which do you believe is better? As you mention ASFAK is the best part of the Dekalog and as such is greater on a per-minute basis, but the Dekalog contains ASFAK plus a lot of other great stuff on top of that, and thus beats it out in terms of pure quantity of highlights. Is this tricky for you to reconcile or do you find it pretty clear-cut?
  
  Drake May 23, 2022 at 9:43 pm – Edit – Reply
  @Declan- Great question. What do you think? I tried to buy myself some time on answering this question by saying I wanted some distance from the Kieslowski study but time flies and it has been a year and a half now. I’ll say I’m glad we have both versions– the Dekalog as this massive, ambitious project– and the lean, crisp and harsh perfection of ASFAK. Gun to my head I think ASFAK will be listed first on my top 500/1000 all-time list when I update it… but I’m also the guy who watches every television series or mini series and says “there’s a really good 90 minute film in here”
Chase October 18, 2023 at 11:31 pm - Reply

The big one! Great stuff here @Drake, glanced over the list last night and haven’t had the time to really analyze until right now and I’ve got to say I agree with this list more than the last, love seeing the massive jump for Playtime especially! It’s great to see that the site is growing and keeps getting better, thank you for all the hard work you put into making it so amazing. Can’t wait for the directors list.
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 3:21 am - Reply
  
  @Chase – So nice of you to write this Chase- thank you!
James Trapp October 18, 2023 at 11:11 pm - Reply

Some additional thoughts, so much to take in
Finally got around to Last Year at Marienbad, watched twice in last week, and agree it’s a MP although I will need addition viewings to pinpoint where it belongs in respect to other MP. This also means that it is the most highly ranked film of The French New Wave. There are 6 French New Wave films in the top 100 with Shoot the Piano Player just missing the cut at # 113. This is a good indicator of how great that era/movement truly was

Last Year at Marienbad # 36
Jules and Jim # 38
Breathless # 39
Playtime (1967) # 58
Pierrot le Fou # 88
The 400 Blows # 89

Personally, I still view The Jules and Jim and The 400 Blows as the two best films of The French New Wave. However, even if someone wants to put Last Year at Marienbad as the best of these 6 films, I still think Breathless, Jules and Jim, and the 400 Blows are all more quintessential French New Waves Films. Sort of like how Double Indemnity is THE FILM NOIR, even if someone wants to rank say Touch of Evil above it due to it being more cinematic
I have not broken it down by country but at a glance I would guess there is a lower percentage of American films in the top 1000. And I say % since the old list was 500 and this is 1000. I feel like
Chinatown fell about 50 spots, for me its # 9 all-time but I have had multiple back and forth conversations on this site about this so not surprised and not much new ground to cover here. On the other hand, Polanski went from 3 MP to 6 MP which puts him in super elite territory. There is not much of a gap between Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby. The Knife in the Water upgrade was a surprise, a good surprise that is.
The Thin Red Line (1998) is a terrific film and clear cut MP but I like its current placement much better, I thought # 43 was too high. I’ve recently come to believe The New World is a top 3 Malick film
WKW case continues to grow, now with a top 10 film and 2 others in the top 100 so a total of 3 top 100 films plus another MP in Days of Being Wild which I love to see, it is a great film and for me WKW third best
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 3:24 am - Reply
  
  @James Trapp – Thank you for sharing more of your thoughts here. I’m happy to talk Chinatown and have a friendly debate if you ever want to.
  
  I’d think I’d push back on Playtime being called a French New Wave film – not that it is that big of a deal. Maybe others include him that movement but I can’t imagine the argument for putting Tati in there.
  - DeclanG October 19, 2023 at 3:45 am - Reply
    
    Agreed on Playtime not being French New Wave – it occupies a strange sort of bubble outside that movement which Tati had made for himself in the 1950s with Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, or even the 40s if you’re going back to Jour de Fete.
    
    The broad shape of his style remains virtually the same over those years, but he just keeps expanding and refining it. He also isn’t exactly innovating new techniques and pushing the artform into the future like Godard and Truffaut were, so much as he is calling back to cinema’s past and combining it with more modern sensibilities.
    - Drake October 19, 2023 at 1:03 pm - Reply
      
      @DeclanG- Yep, he’s from a different generation – there’s a case for La Pointe Courte and Varda in the French New Wave and I know the New Wave crew adored Melville and viewed him as a sort of Godfather to the New Wave- but Tati’s orbit is outside of the New Wave
  - James Trapp October 19, 2023 at 4:36 am - Reply
    
    @Drake – for sure, I want to watch it again with notes, will keep you updated.
    
    Regarding Playtime, I have actually not seen it and I actually did think there was a possibility that it is not considered New Wave but I was not sure either way so I figured better safe than sorry. The year of its release was part of why I thought this.
Lionel October 18, 2023 at 10:47 pm - Reply

Didn’t Masaki Kobayashi’s The Inheritance(1962) make this list?
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 3:16 am - Reply
  
  @Lionel- wanted another look at it first – have a few that are in a similar spot
M*A*S*H October 18, 2023 at 6:24 pm - Reply

A momentous list! Probably the best one I’ve ever seen.

I have a question. Can you give me a rough idea about which are MP, MS/MP, MS, HR/MS and HR films?
According to my understanding;
1) 1 to 306 are MP level films, Colonel blimp being the last MP film
2) 307 to 376 are MS/MP level films, letters from an unknown woman being last
3) 377 to 691 are MS level films, anatomy of a murder being last MS film
and so on.
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 3:13 am - Reply
  
  @M*A*S*H- Thank you for saying that – happy to hear you think so on the list. Yeah that’s close- I put in all in order like that first and then used this opportunity to hopefully right some wrongs and move some things around. Some of the films on the border of each will move a half grade or so to put them where they really should have been all along
KidCharlemagne October 18, 2023 at 5:18 pm - Reply

Congratulations for the list. I’m a fan since 3/4 years already, great to see the site grows, you deserve it.
- Drake October 18, 2023 at 5:32 pm - Reply
  
  @KidCharlemagne- Appreciate it- I always look forward to your comments
Bullweather October 18, 2023 at 3:40 pm - Reply

Great work, Drake! Pumped to see a lot of the changes, and shocked by others. Mostly I’m thrilled just to have more movies to add to my watchlist. Congratulations on getting it done, and looking forward to all that remains.
- Drake October 18, 2023 at 5:30 pm - Reply
  
  @Bullweather- very much appreciate it – thank you.
Big chungus October 18, 2023 at 3:25 pm - Reply

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Im so excited to read this ahhhh thankyou bro!!!!! Amazing amazing
- Big chungus October 18, 2023 at 3:27 pm - Reply
  
  So many changes but im in love!!!
  - Drake October 18, 2023 at 5:29 pm - Reply
    
    @Big chungus- haha happy to hear it – thank you!
ga October 18, 2023 at 2:08 pm - Reply

Fascinating list! Was very happy to see a new one, and I think a lot of the changes are really good!

– Your 2000s favourites now look a lot more like mine, as I think my top 5 are Children of Men, In the Mood for Love, Yi Yi, Hero, and Songs From The Second Floor in some order. Always happy to see some of my favourites rising 🙂
– Crazy but well-deserved Kieslowski rise, such a unique and boundary-pushing talent. I rewatched Red and Blue in cinemas last year and that really elevated both, so I’ll probably try and sit down with his other big hitters soon to see how they fare.
– Renoir didn’t do terribly well, had a few works drop out of the top 500… sad to see.
– Playtime was a surprise but a cool one! Uses its sets so brilliantly at virtually every point.
– Both 80s Tarkovskys in the top 100 is a viewpoint I’d definitely share. I personally think that his skills as a director just basically kept increasing throughout his career, and by the 80s he was the biggest and brightest talent working.
– Acts as a good reminder that I still have to get around to watching the works of Truffaut (other than 400 Blows), Sirk, Herzog, and a few other really big directors
- Drake October 18, 2023 at 2:19 pm - Reply
  
  @ga- Appreciate you sharing your thoughts and impressions here – thank you
- RW November 23, 2023 at 7:32 pm - Reply
  
  Re: Herzog, make sure to watch the documentaries as well.
Lionel October 18, 2023 at 12:48 pm - Reply

So The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Speed Racer are some of the best sci-fi films of all-time? I have to say none of them have the greatest of reputation.
- Drake October 18, 2023 at 2:02 pm - Reply
  
  @Lionel- Always tough with sci-fi or any genre definitions – but yes, feel like the evidence for their mastery is up there on the screen regardless of their reputations
  - Lionel October 18, 2023 at 6:38 pm - Reply
    
    Was Abrams’ Star Trek film close to making this list?
    - Drake October 19, 2023 at 3:13 am - Reply
      
      @Lionel- not terribly close
Yaared October 18, 2023 at 12:41 pm - Reply

Monumental work here. Thank you!
- Drake October 18, 2023 at 2:01 pm - Reply
  
  @Yaared- thank you- appreciate you coming to the site and
Remy October 18, 2023 at 11:53 am - Reply

Nobody seems to have noticed Lynch being shut out of the top 100…
- Drake October 19, 2023 at 3:14 am - Reply
  
  @Remy- I noticed the same thing afterwards as well – still one hell of a filmmaker – he isn’t alone being shut out of the top 100
Malith October 18, 2023 at 10:24 am - Reply

Directors with two or more archivable films in the top 1000:

19-Alfred Hitchcock

16-Ingmar Bergman

13-Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa

11-Yazujiro Ozu

10-Luchino Visconti, William Wyler, Fritz Lang, Robert Altman, Coen Brothers

9-Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, David Cronenberg, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard

8-Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar-wai, Andrei Tarkovsky, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Bunuel, Woody Allen, Howard Hawks

7-Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Brian de Palma, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch

6-David Lean, Jean Renoir, Krysztof Kieslowski, Quentin Tarantino, Francois Truffaut, Buster Keaton, Shohei Imamura, Michael Powell, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Max Ophuls, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Sidney Lumet, Satyajit Ray, Kenji Mizoguchi, Alfonso Cuaron

5-Carl Theoder Drayer, Sergei Einstein, Terrence Malick, Bela Tarr, Spike Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Leone, Michael Mann, Terry Gilliam, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Dardenne Brothers, Jane Campion, James Cameron, Nicolas Roeg

4-F.W Murnau, Bernardo Bertolucci, D.W Griffith, Lars von Trier, Alain Resnais, Peter Greenaway, Yimou Zhang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Josef von Sternberg, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michael Haneke, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Victor Sjostrom, Oliver Stone, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Sofia Coppola, Masaki Kobayashi, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Chaplin, John Cassavetes, Robert Wise, Nicholas Ray, The Wachowskis, King Vidor, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sam Mendes, Julian Duvivier, Frank Borzage, Gus van Sant, Otto Preminger, Preston Sturges, Vincente Minelli, Ernst Lubitsch

3-Ridley Scott, Vittorio De Sica, Mikhail Kalatozov, Terrence Davies, Jaques Tati, Mike Nichols, Mike Leigh, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, Park Chan-wook, Alan Pakula, Raoul Walsh, John Boorman, Agnes Varda, Hal Ashby, Samuel Fuller, Eric von Stroheim, Paul Schrader, George Lucas, Jacques Torneur, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen, Seijun Suzuki, Guru Dutt, Ken Russell, Bong Joon-ho, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Nicolas Winding Refn, Lynne Ramsay, Atom Egoyan, John Carpenter, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Fosse, Elia Kazan, Marcel Carné, George Stevens, Aki Kaurismaki, James Gray, Ming-liang Tsai, George Cukor, Anthony Mann, Stanley Donen, René Clair, Robert Rossen, G. W. Pabst

2-Roy Andersson, Carol Reed, Sam Peckinpah, Dario Argento, Arpichtpong Weerasethakul, Victor Fleming, Raul Ruiz, Pawel Pawlikowski, Michael Curtis, Edward Yang, Jaques Demy, Michael Cimino, Peter Jackson, Cristian Mungiu, Joe Wright, Steven Soderbergh, Joseph Losey, Jonathan Demme, John Schlesinger, George Roy Hill, William Friedkin, Arthur Penn, Guillermo del Toro, Todd Haynes, Milos Forman, Louis Malle, Abbas Kiarostami, Chantel Akerman, Jean Cocteau, William A. Wellman, John Frankenheimer, Leos Carax, Xavier Dolan, Anthony Minghella, Spike Jonze, Don Siegel, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hayao Miyazaki, Ang Lee, Warren Beatty, Rene Clement, Ralph Richardson, Peter Weir, Sydney Pollack, George A. Romero, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Alex Cox, Abel Ferrara, Jacques Rivette, Mario Bava, Robert Aldrich, David O. Russell, James Ivory, John Woo, Sergio Corbucci, Gaspar Noe, Tim Burton, Satoshi Kon, Noah Baumbach, Sergei Parajanov, Robert Hamer, Jean Vigo
- Drake October 18, 2023 at 1:21 pm - Reply
  
  @Malith- This is some heavy lifting – thank you for putting in all this work
- Malith October 19, 2023 at 11:06 am - Reply
  
  Sergei Parajanov has two films as well
- Malith October 19, 2023 at 11:54 am - Reply
  
  Bergman actually has 17 films. James Whale has 2.